Senior Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior daily rate in Edinburgh is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 54 95 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.64% 11.66% 10.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.29% 12.21% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 115
10th Percentile £333 £345 £387
25th Percentile £401 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £471 £575 £588
90th Percentile £579 £663 £645
Scotland median daily rate £433 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -13.45% -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £24.27 £24.08 -
25th Percentile £30.22 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £40.80 £60.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -32.01% +238.60% -66.25%
75th Percentile £50.72 - £26.73
90th Percentile £56.29 - £42.94
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +238.60% -66.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Edinburgh

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 24 (44.44%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 19 (35.19%) Public Sector
4 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Finance
7 11 (20.37%) Business Analysis
8 10 (18.52%) DevOps
9 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (16.67%) Azure
9 9 (16.67%) Project Management
9 9 (16.67%) Project Delivery
10 8 (14.81%) Analytics
11 7 (12.96%) AWS
11 7 (12.96%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (12.96%) Python
11 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
12 6 (11.11%) .NET
12 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 6 (11.11%) User Experience
12 6 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (9.26%) React
13 5 (9.26%) Systematic Trading
13 5 (9.26%) Target Operating Model
13 5 (9.26%) Banking
13 5 (9.26%) Requirements Analysis
13 5 (9.26%) Algorithmic Trading
13 5 (9.26%) SQL
13 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
14 4 (7.41%) User Research

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.70%) CMS
1 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.70%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.85%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
4 3 (5.56%) IaaS
4 3 (5.56%) PaaS
5 2 (3.70%) Apigee
5 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.85%) OCI
6 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) 4G
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.85%) WAN
1 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.85%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.85%) Postman
3 1 (1.85%) Selenium
3 1 (1.85%) Subversion
3 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.19%) Public Sector
3 12 (22.22%) Finance
4 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Games
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 1 (1.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) React
3 4 (7.41%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.70%) Spring
4 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.70%) Spring Security
4 2 (3.70%) Swagger
5 1 (1.85%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.85%) HTML
5 1 (1.85%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) Pandas
5 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (5.56%) Wiki
3 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Clustering
3 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Derivative
3 1 (1.85%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.85%) Equities
3 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.85%) FPGA
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Replication
3 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) AIX
3 1 (1.85%) Solaris
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Agile
2 14 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.37%) Business Analysis
5 10 (18.52%) DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 9 (16.67%) Project Management
7 8 (14.81%) Analytics
8 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
8 7 (12.96%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.11%) User Experience
10 5 (9.26%) Algorithmic Trading
10 5 (9.26%) Requirements Analysis
10 5 (9.26%) Systematic Trading
10 5 (9.26%) Target Operating Model
11 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (7.41%) Risk Management
11 4 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) SQL
3 4 (7.41%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) C
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.85%) VBA
6 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) IIBA
2 2 (3.70%) ISEB
3 1 (1.85%) CEH
3 1 (1.85%) CISSP
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) GCFA
3 1 (1.85%) GCIH
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.85%) BT
3 1 (1.85%) Citrix
3 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.85%) Dell
3 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.85%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) IDERA
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) Reuters
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.85%) Snow
3 1 (1.85%) VMware